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(cont’d) • In 1924 Oscar Mayer introduced a novel product: packaged pre-sliced bacon, for which they received a patent. • In 1936 they had an automobile built that was shaped like a hot dog, and they hired a midget to drive it to events, billing it as “the world’s smallest chef driving the world’s biggest hot dog.” Although many pint-size actors played the part, the very first one they hired was Meinhardt Raabe, who played the part of Little Oscar for several years and then headed to Hollywood where he landed the one and only film role of his career: as the munchkin coroner in “The Wizard of Oz” who declares the Wicked Witch of the East “really most sincerely dead.” • Raabe claimed to have been the person who suggested that Oscar Mayer sell sausages in tin cans so that the product would appear in two different places in the supermarket: the meat aisle and the canned goods aisle. Production began just at the start of World War II. The U.S. Government immediately realized that canned sausages were perfect for feeding hungry soldiers in the field, and almost the entire production was diverted to the war effort. This exposed many soldiers to Oscar Mayer products and ensured the continuing success of the brand. • Today there are six Weinermobiles and one Weinie-Bago on the road, generally driven by college students. • Oscar’s nephew Carl Mayer asked himself, “A giant hot dog was a hit, so why not a tiny one?” In 1958 every package of hot dogs came with a hot-dog shaped whistle. The whistles are still very popular today, with about 200,000 handed out every year. • By the time Oscar Mayer died at the age of 95 in 1955, his company employed thousands of people. It’s now owned by KraftHeinz.

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